I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence.

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.